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The underlying technology of AI is incredible. It's the sociopathic capitalist layer that the tech bros put on top of it that's the problem. It was meant to create miracles in medicine and science, not become world-destroying chatbots and autonomous killing machines. These psychos are the problem.

Big Tech backs Anthropic in fight against Trump administration - BBC News share.google/xLNAhbA7qJO6...

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It was all about spying on Americans: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

A direct attack on free enterprise, liberty, and basic morality

Hello #NLProc #ACL2026NLP people. I am looking for **two emergency reviewers** in the Safety and Alignment in LLMs track for ACL/ARR. Reviews are due Feb 15th. Please DM if interested and available. Happy to offer drinks/food if you live in/pass by Lisbon ☀️

Robotics in particular badly needs better evaluations

This year’s KONVENS will take place our beautiful city, Hamburg, September 14–17, under the special theme “Context Matters: NLP Beyond Text”. The call can be found on our website: konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de.

An important topic, in honour of an important career in NLG

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Nice analogy with linguistic levels of analysis : phonetics --> semantics --> pragmatics

Source: Pentagon Clashes With Anthropic Over Military AI Use @reuters.com The Pentagon and AI developer Anthropic are at odds over potentially eliminating safeguards that might allow the government to use its technology to target weapons autonomously and conduct U.S. domestic surveillance. 🤬

Solving the "data gap" in robotics by just collecting a lot of robot data

"Word from Mordor is that the Tomes of Epstein have been moved to the lower levels of Barad-dûr. Will Sauron's distraction tactics work forever?"

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Robots for constructing buildings are actually very challenging. It will take a looooong time before they can replace all the trained people deported from the US.

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Who speaks for Earth? Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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The current generation of humanoid robots is still very unsafe, which is a huge problem if your goal is to put them in homes.

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🚀 We’re opening 2 fully funded postdoc positions in #NLP! Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects. 🔗 More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio... ⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026

🏹 Job alert: Two fully funded PhD positions in Natural Language Processing at University of Leipzig 📍 Leipzig 🇩🇪 📅 Apply by Jan 15th 🔗 https://ellis.eu/research/jobs/2025-12-16-two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-natural-language-processing

Good news!🎉 The government is set to announce tomorrow that the UK will rejoin the Erasmus+ scheme from January 2027 according to reports. Read more: https://www.bestforbritain.org/uk_to_rejoin_erasmus

📢 PhD & postdoc call for start in autumn 2026 📢 Join a new interdisciplinary project on Human-Centered Explainable LLMs @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk ⏳ 1 Feb 2026 ℹ️ www.copenlu.com/news/funded-... 🗒️ employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=15... (PhD); employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... (Postdoc)

🎉 New work: “Learning Massively Multitask World Models for Continuous Control” We introduce MMBench: a 200-task RL benchmark, and Newt: a language-conditioned multitask world model trained with large-scale online RL. www.nicklashansen.com/NewtWM/ Code, checkpoints, dataset etc. are open-source!

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Important

Our final SPRING Project paper has just been published in the International Journal of Social Robotics! 🎉 📄 Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare We explore how hospital patients and our robot Ari can engage in natural, useful conversations 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great idea, and increasingly important to do this work.

Eating less/no animal products (especially beef), composting food waste, and demanding your community quickly transition away from fossil fuels are great ways to reduce methane emissions — and therefore help coral reefs because not all hope is lost!!

Think your LLMs “understand” words like although/but/therefore? Think again! They perform at chance for making inferences from certain discourse connectives expressing concession

Open PhD position in embodied AI, Edinburgh - applications closing soon!

PhD positions in AI/Robotics/NLP -- deadline Friday, 14 November 2025 ! Edinburgh, Scotland 🤖🗣️ -- please share! www.cdt-d2air.uk

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This week's #PaperILike is "Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models" (Shi et al., ICML 2025). I'm often asked: how might we combine ideas from hierarchical planning and VLAs? This is a good start! PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2502.19417

PhD position available ! - Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents (eg. robots :) - Please distribute

PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social - please contact me ASAP if you are interested ! sites.google.com/site/hwinter...

Full Professor position in AI/CS -- Deadline for applications 23rd June!

Prof position in CA/ AI -- Apply here ! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

The regular submission deadline for SIGdial 2025 has now passed... But we are still welcoming submissions through ACL Rolling Review 🎉 ARR Commitment Deadline: June 6th Acceptance notifications will be on June 20th, and then SIGdial will be held in Avignon, France: August 25th - 27th

Oh yes, here's the link to the actual pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2504.08590